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Your Heart Can Break Open Without Breaking Apart

There’s the child who suffers from bullying, the young adult who suffers from unrequited love, the person in midlife who sees a marriage or a career fail, the elder who endures the death of the one closest to his or her heart.

Here’s a brief but powerful poem by Gregory Orr about the heart that’s been broken open, not broken apart.

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